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Miyazaki i see what you did there
#narrative parallels between characters my beloved#elden ring#shadow of the erdtree#roderika#queen marika the eternal
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"And now I know why! He hates me!"
#first part of the two parter finale where the main character is super reluctant to go on a rescue mission to save him from bill#and ends up punching the main villain in the face in the next ep to save his twin my beloved#dreamscaperers and w3 parallels with dipper and stan is so important to me#dipper pines#stan pines#stanley pines#gravity falls#people always goes on about how stan sees ford in dipper but im just!!!#it's important that he sees himself in dipper too!!! it's super emphasised in dreamscaperers and scaryoke!!!#also him knowing that dipper wasn't going to take his secrets and lies well in nwhs even before the agents showed up#not knowing that dipper would immediately forgive him once he learns he did it all for his twin#cos dipper would do the same for mabel#they're the protective younger angry sweaty twins who care for their sweater twins!!!
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Gaslighter? I hardly know her!
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#poorly drawn mdzs#mdzs#wei wuxian#lan wangji#jin guangyao#qin su#The parallels to the mulderskully comic were genuine scripting coincidences that I kept in for the irony.#wwx and mulder both have a strong need to show their beloved (investigation) partner the cool thing they just found.#Much to their chagrin and concern.#For as much of a mess the plot gets in The Untamed...one of the things it does probably the best of all adaptions is setting up JGY.#specifically how we spend time getting to know him as a *Regular Guy* around our deuteragonists' age.#I love how he's present in the cloud recess arc! I was rooting for him as a character! The twist villain reveal felt so heartbreaking!#Here in the audio drama (for as much as it does well) we pretty much get 2 scenes tops with this guy before he's villain monologuing.#before this we know him as 1) the guy NMJ yelled at a lot 2) a suspect 3) leader guy Jin Ling was partially raised by.#The elements are there but but not with any particular depth to make him...interesting (in this version).#Sure we get to learn more after the fact but it just falls so flat in comparison B*/#ohhhh noooo the guy we are pretty sure killed a guy is gaslighting his wife and has a secret torture chamber. And he's a politician.#not much of a mystery to it all innit.#Feel free to disagree or bring up differing points btw; I love media analysis convos and this truly is just my opinion.
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I think Curly’s monologue in the How Fish Are Made DLC gives so much insight to why he thinks the way he does but is also so sad cause it’s just this anger from a person who no longer has the energy to be angry.
You can tell a lot of it’s directed at himself, his choices and how he thinks they affected the people in his life. How he tried to work with what he had and it just wasn’t enough both by the design and how he interacted with it. He’s bitter, he’s upset but he’s also accepting it in a place he really isn’t expected to. But then again that’s always a problem he’s had.
It really goes in tandem with how he is characterized in mouthwashing as we really don’t get those inner turmoils. He’s always trying to help people with theirs and his gets clouded through a different persons view.
#I think curly is way more jaded before the crash than people give him credit for like#I think one of the most important things ignored about Anya and Carly’s parallels is how they worry about the same things where as Curly#worries about his actions she has to worry about the actions done to and around her#characters who are crushed by burdens they should not carry my beloved#Anya and him deserve a nice house and like a trip to six flags#mouthwashing#mouthwashing game#mouthwashing curly#curly mouthwashing#captain curly#mouthwashing spoilers
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very funny to me when people point at ruby and castiel as the obvious intentional parallels meaning that samruby being canon = destiel when like. how it actually went down is anna was supposed to be the parallel but spn hated women too much to have two of them playing a central role in the brothers’ lives at once. what we’ve encountered here is sexism, not gay people.
#this is not getting into how much better destiel would be if we leaned into it being like samruby but thats besides the point here#hi yeah its me still annoyed at a decision made on a tv show over a decade ago to can my girl#oh alternate spn where anna is a recurring character my beloved#its just like. no she was the parallel. there were two episodes about it actually. and then they changed their minds.#castiel lives because god forbid women do anything (<- have a relationship with dean winchester that makes the fans hate her and has too#much agency for the writers to let her live)#spn#anna milton
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comparing elia martell to princess diana is kinda insane
cause the real princess diana of westeros was rhaegar
#lmao i’m sorry but i just saw the most cray cray post and i wanted to laugh#what did elia do for the common people? did they even like her? she’s loved in dorne but in the rest of westeros? she barely mentioned#the fact that diana created this approachable image & had so many charities under her belt is why she was so loved#rhaegar singing to the commoners == dany helping her sick subjects == diana shaking hands with people with aids#tbh charles and diana’s story should actually once again remind people that arranged marriages fucking suck for both individuals involved#i do not like charles at all but it’s not his fault that he didn’t love diana 🤷♀️#i’m just so suprised by the absurdity of trying to compare charles and camilla to rhaegar and lyanna#asoiaf fandom critical#anti elia stans#rhaegar targaryen#rip prince rhaegar the silver prince who’s still so beloved by the common folk 💔#im here to fight for rhaegar’s honor#i’ll call him the peoples prince 😂#asoiaf#to be serious for a sec: i hate these surface level takes. it completely strips the text of any nuance and context#this nuance and context is so important bc it is key to understanding the themes and underlying messages of the text#but instead people wanna compare aesthetics. which is fine and fun. but theres nothing in the text that even hints-#-that any of these characters can be directly paralleled to these modern royals.#my silver prince 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺
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you'll never guess which level we're up to in this dishonored 2 rewrite
#if i haven't stuffed up my timezones this post should land on thanksgiving so here's somethin' to read to go with your food coma#dishonored#dishonored shitposting#emily kaldwin#billie lurk#dishonored fic#interesting the way the resurrection was handled - rock up to aramis stilton's powerpoint presentation basically#does anyone else think it would have been cool if you had to do the duke's palace first.#grab delilah's mortality and give it back in the past. like while she's vulnerable#kind of makes sense too from an emily character perspective#because she shows SO much character growth in stilton's manor#and then goes to the duke's palace next and IMMEDIATELY says the dumbest shit she says all game re: her entitlement and obliviousness#stilton's manor: wow ive learned so much i finally get it now!#nek minnet. emily misunderstands class warfare so bad she thinks she needs to sharpen her dads folding blade. emily. no#and if you think about it the duke's palace would have made a lot of sense for an earlier level just from emily's perspective.#hes very clearly her enemy compared to meagan's vague idea of where sokolov might be. a darker timeline perhaps#lovely Off_Topic mentioned hating time travel as a plot device and i have to agree. here's my take on that level anyway#also big thank you to RoseEll (<3) for saying it parallels the limitations of the game's mechanics interestingly ♥#using this meme template was like. 'oh hey lingering hatred for jeremy clarkson i forgot i had you'#making the badly photoshopped heads too big. my beloved.#ah crap rambling again
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Thinking about how Flavio is a survivalist while Fafnir is...Fafnir
They're both attackers but one is support + evasion based while the other is going all out in like a nuke
And how Flavio's angsting about being in Fafnir's shadow and his jealousness towards Fafnir's strengh + decisiveness in leu of his lies to avoid confrontation
But that the one single thing Fafnir, the absolute force boost powerhouse, who can slash and bash and buff and debuff both physical and all elemental, can't do
Are ranged stab attacks, evasion, and bind/ailments
Aka all the things that Flavio does
#etrian odyssey#etrian odyssey 2 untold#AND THEYVE BEEN BESTIES SINCE CHILDHOOD#AND TRAINED TOGETHER#characters reflected in gameplay my beloved#say what you want about the shonen anime plot#the characters are *chefs kiss*#I am just. Very normal about the 2Uguild ok#...maybe I'm just a sucker for Hero/Lancer parallels idk
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Is it really accurate to use the word "selfless" to describe Merlin?
"Selfless" is a word with an undeniable good "white" connotation and when it comes to Merlin, I don't think we can say something is black or white in its entirety. So this question is kind of tricky and, honestly, far too complicated to answer it with a simple and short yes or no.
Let me elaborate.
He was not selfish when it came to himself as a person —that part is right— as he never hesitated in giving his life for others, always helped his friends no matter what, never seeked power nor recognition for himself, etc.
But I do think he was selfish, extremely so at times, when it came to his own self-interests. The main one being Arthur's safety and wellbeing.
And why do I say this? Let's go back to memory lane and remember some of his decisions throughout the show!
1. He condemned (heartbrokenly, I'll give him that) his whole kin to continue living in the shadows and most probably to be executed if they were caught practicing magic in Camelot just so Mordred could die and Arthur could live by extension.
2. Talking about Mordred, he never gave him the chance to prove himself trustworthy and loyal to Arthur, he just decided he was evil since he saw he was destined to kill his friend instead of trying to change that outcome or understand where would that could come from.
3. He lied to Arthur about himself and what he was for the whole decade they knew each other so Arthur wouldn't feel bad for choosing him over his father when he found out about his magic. Or viceversa.
4. He always put Arthur's life before any other's, including his closest friends: remember when he repeatedly tried to talk Arthur out of going to save them from Morgana because he was worried about him as the druid seer showed him he was going to be killed by a man aka Mordred?
5. He lied to Arthur about his mother and what Uther did to conceive him (he also robbed him that unique and beautiful moment he shared with his mom), something he had all the right to know, so Arthur wouldn't kill Uther and hate himself for it for the rest of his life.
6. He took Arthur's free will away from him so he would agree to everything Merlin said and he could take him out of the castle and save his life when Morgana and Agravaine attacked.
And I could go on, honestly, but I won't because I fear some people might take this as a hating post towards Merlin, which it definitely is not lol. Quite the contrary, actually! I understand and, to a certain point even love, all the decisions Merlin took because it just proved the inmensity of his love for Arthur.
So if I mention all this is because, despite having honorable goals —as saving someone's life (Arthur's) or sparing them the possibility of feeling irrevocably guilty for taking a life-altering decision when their heads were clouded by anger, sadness and fear— the means he used to do all that were highly questionable to say the least: lies, deceiving, manipulation, mind-control and so on are, in no way, justifiable.
They are just not.
But we fans decide to brush those aside and accept them because we understand that it all came out from a place of love. Pure, huge, raw and unwavering love. Although, that still doesn't make it right. Not really.
I will dare to say it actually makes it worse.
Love is a complicated and, may I say, dangerous feeling. It can make us feel happier, confident with oursleves, adventurous and giddy. But it can also make us stupid, blind and selfish.
And that's exactly what it did to Merlin.
He came to a point where he stopped caring about his destiny and focused only on saving Arthur's life, others be damned, just because he loved him too much and he couldn't bare to lose him.
And unfortunately at the end, it was that love, and the King's complete and blind trust in Merlin, that got Arthur dead.
To sum it up, I don't think there's a better way to describe Merlin than to say he was a whole spectrum of greys. A constant paradox of selflessness and selfishness. Another victim of love.
Anyway, he was far from perfect but that's exactly why I love him! He could come as the most selfless person at first glance (and to a certain degree, he was; although I think the word sacrificial suits him even better) but if you really look at it, specially from a canon era outsider POV, he could rather come as a selfish, powerful man that wouldn't hesitate in destroying you if it means he can save Arthur's life with that.
He was truly unhinged when it came to his other half and that's exactly why he's my second most favorite fictional character ever created!
**The first one being Dean Winchester, another unhinged man that couldn't live without his baby brother and would burn the whole world willingly only to keep Sammy safe!
Huh.
Now that I think about it.
Maybe I have a type?
#bbc merlin#merlin#arthur pendragon#mordred#character study#merlin loves arthur a lot#maybe too much#arthur was merlin's number one priority#arthur x merlin#my opinion#arthur's bane was his trust for merlin and merlin's love for him actually#they really were two sides of the same coin#supernatural#dean winchester#sam winchester#merlin and dean my most unhinged beloveds#i love merlin and dean winchester parallels#samdean and merthur are truly so similar in so many things is insane#best fictional characters#and i won't take criticisms
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me baiting the trigun fans w/ the dark tower series like "pspspsps this is a normal scifi western it will not hurt you (it wants to hurt you. it wants to hurt you a lot actually)"
we even have COMICS and characters DOOMED BY THE NARRATIVE and weird, fucked up THINGS and the main character is GOING THROUGH IT
#myde talks#the dark tower#trigun#vash as a christ figure#roland as literally the descendant of king arthur#desert worlds where Fucked Up Shit happens#ill give it this#trigun isnt as heavy on the weird metatextual context as tdt is#but also wolfwood and eddie dean parallels WHOO BOY#permanently changed by meeting the main character and death fucking CODED#but also susannah my beloved#the comics are genuinely good!#they're written by stephen king's like. assistant?#robin furth is a godsend tbh#and the art in both the books and the comics is SO fucking good
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Thinking about the last of us and character parallels.
Started by thinking about Abby II Ellie, which turned into Abby II Joel II Ellie, which turned into Joel II Bill.
I like Bill and Frank's episode in the HBOMax series, however, I don't like the removal of Joel and Bill's parallels.
Bill was what would have happened to Joel if he had lost Tess and not developed a relationship with Ellie (similarly to how Ellie in the end of TLOU2 is like Joel if he'd stayed a hunter [presumably] and Abby if she'd lost everyone and never met Lev and Yara or never got revenge). Bill is calloused and trusts no one after his fallout with Frank, like how Joel was immediately after Tess died.
But in the series, Bill is just happy. Nothing wrong with that, though I'm not fond of the bury-your-gays part. But Bill and Frank being dead and happy is not a parallel to Joel. It's something Joel can never have. Which, I suppose, makes Bill more of a foil or shadow to Joel.
Tl;dr: hbomax took away my Bill-Joel parallels and I'm sad because I love parallels.
#the last of us#the last of us 2#tlou#tlou2#joel miller#ellie williams#abby anderson#bill tlou#thematic character parallels my beloved#hbomax buried the gays#spoilers
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#izzy hands#our flag means death#ofmd#Mazikeen has that gifset that mirrors the ‘there he is’ scene so perfectly#Pearl has ‘It’s over isn’t it’#I feel like people won’t know Drummer and Ashford but they are both so Izzy in different ways#unrequited gay crush on someone dating the protagonist who is a buffoon#vs grizzled old guy who is an antagonist but very honorable and totally reasonable the whole time#and they both have been pirates and first mates!#Drummer’s also got that ridiculous loyalty and the angry yelling#anyway Sevika’s the loyal henchmen who loses a limb and has to deal with her boss’s much sillier interest in another character#Izzy made me like her so much more than I first did#I have not seen Birds of Prey but Victor is a masochistic gay little henchman and that seems perfect tbh?#no idea who Pash is; please tell me#Tinkerbell and Jon were also recommended for this poll and IDK the parallel but it’s funny#I also want to add an honorable mention for ‘loyal henchmen with an unrequited gay crush’ Scorpia from She-Ra#But my beloved Scorpia is way too nice and unbeat to win here
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i'm so intrigued by the choice to include that final scene in the cemetery with buck + tommy
buck's speech to billy was so wholesome + fully encapsulates why i adore him
this show has so many cemetery scenes + i'm curious to see how this one might connect to the others thematically
...oh no... i'll have to rewatch the entire series...
...oh no...
#weewoo brainrot#911 spoilers#911 masks#buck my beloved#tommy kinard#911 parallels#firefam#the way death is a major character in this show#i just have a lot of emotions ok
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SEASON 4 FINALE.........I felt genuinely ill the whole time like my stomach was twisting I was gonna throw up oh my god what the FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
#SAM MY BOY#SAMUEL MY BELOVED IM SO SORRY#THE FUCKING CON ........ THE WHOLE TIME!?!?!?! THE WHOLE FUCKING TIME!?!??!?!#u js have 2 respect her @ this point 4 that bc holy shit#2 season spanning game she was in 4 the LONG HAUL#cas defying fuckers 4 the gayass 1 million complex brothers 🎉#sam made me want 2 throw up so much#he js wanted 2 save ppl .... he didnt kno!!!! HE DIDNT KNO!!!!!!!!!!! (said thru tears)#THE FUCKING DEMOM EYES...ON HIM......IT MADE ME ILL#srry!!!!!!! sam thoughts im rlly biased#OUGH he PRAYED he had FAITH and he was MANIPULATED and TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF and REFUSED 2 SEE IT bc he WANTED 2 BELIEVE#that he culd do GOOD despite tbe fact he KNEWWW he had DEMOM BLOOD in himmmmmmm!!!!!!!!! ARRRRRRGHHHHHHHH#im having so many thoughts. abt him. but i dont thibk im articulating them v well @ all.. oh well! do u understand what i mean#anyways unreleated i thibk sam an cas shuld fuck nasty#im making galaxy brain parallels between them i js cant explain them v well. but i think gay sex wuld help (it wuldnt)#uhmmmm what else#chucks goofy i hope nthn bad happens 2 him (smth bad always happens)#MAN!!!!!!!!!!!! can these stupid ass brothers catch a BREAK!!!!!!! for ONCE!!!!!!!!!!!!#can s5 b normal (s5 won't b normal)#why the hell did i start watching spn. worst mistake of my life#ive been reminded i CAN infact get emotionally attached 2 fictional characters. thanks spn. ive got sam rotating in my mind now#i want dean 2 punch fuck outta him and then i want them 2 make up and they shuld fly 2 sum place else and have a normal life#im so DONE w this show!!!!! (im starting s5 next wk)#why the hell os this show making me feel shit bro this wasnt supposed 2 happen :(#sigh.....................oh well#spn#rivers rambles <3
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Maybe I’m slow on the draw and everyone connected these dots already, or maybe I’ve just realized how important Jim’s arc is to Aziraphale’s decision at the end of season two.
Not only does Aziraphale meet a completely new, kind person in Gabriel without his memories, but when he finally regains them, he doesn’t revert to his cold self. Gabriel is a reformed person, finally having formed his own opinions outside of the strict guise of Heaven.
And Aziraphale finally realizes that even the worst of the angels have the ability to change.
The happy couple being allowed to disappear and live their eternity together is the proof he needs to believe the others may be swayed as well.
And the Metatron’s timing in all of this is horrifically perfect, catching Zira in a vulnerability that has just formed, and pulling him right back into the cycle of abuse.
#good omens#good omens season two#gos2#gos2 spoilers#good omens spoilers#as much as the coffee theory is nice for coping I genuinely believe zira made this decision#and though it’s not a good decision… all signs in this season and it’s flashbacks point to his religious trauma not at all being resolved#and I’m so so hoping for it to be a big focus in season three#it’s the perfect opportunity to explore the queer themes already in the narrative with trauma that so often afflicts queer people#just not in the manner of homophobia like in real life. it’s more a parallel through this universe’s lends#honestly the complete lack of homophobia is so delightful and allows every character to face deeper conflicts within the self#story of oppression told with an allegory my beloved#(as long as it’s on purpose and us fans don’t have to trip over ourselves to make it a queer narrative of course)#(there’s so much I could cough at and call out with that but you get the idea lol)
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i loved ur lmk fandomification rant, now i'm curious- who's your favorite (non-monkey!) lmk character (and any insights you want to share with the class? :eyes:)
Mei, Lady Bone Demon, and probably Azure!
But I could go on a long rant about any character in the show tbh, they're all my favorite character with the 3 I listed and MK being my "favorite favorites" (except maybe Jin and Yin, sorry guys. I do like their place as a sense of normalcy for MK, acting as the "monster of the week" antagonists in 4x01).
Little miss "I would watch my sword break 1000 times so long as I used it to protect the ones I care about" is my girly. Watched her best friend die in the A Hero is Born (AHIB) special and held onto that as a grudge all the way until 3x10. She just wants to see everyone make it out alive, but I doubt she's ready to pay the price required for that. No one in this show is. Mei watched Peng run away in 4x14 and wanted to kill that bird with her bear hands. She took everything Subodhi said to her in 4x09 so personally, like Subodhi probably knew she would, which allowed her to build off of MK's plan so they had a chance at succeeding. She's at her god damn limit. Her episodes (1x03, 3x02, & 4x05) are some of my favorites. She drives a motor cycle, she wears lipstick, she's a gamer, she wields a kick-ass sword, she's a dragon. In 3x12 she's willing to sacrifice Wukong for the sake of the world and more specifically MK. "Don't you realize you're hurting the people who care about you the most?" She's "fakin' it until she's makin' it". Literally what more could you ask for in a character.
Then you have LBD, who fights for a perfect world supposedly for mortal souls yet discards people the moment they no longer have a use to her. Ultimately I think she uses destiny as a crutch, as her way to cope with all of the suffering in the world. "I won't let you take my Destiny from me". You wonder how much it was about perfection and how much it was about her ability to change anything in the world she watched play the same tragedy over and over again. For the first 3 seasons she seems to be acting on destiny itself, she's the narrative our protagonists are running from. Then Embrace Your Destiny comes around, and you realize she was just as doomed by the narrative as anyone else. Doomed to a world of pain, unable to fix anything. The "to pain" scene is one of my favorite scenes, just in general. "Do you really still think the universe wants anything, from any of us?" "Don't you?" LBD and MK's foil is so fucking good. A delightful antagonist who they justify but don't victimize. Killed Spider Queen on screen. What more can I say.
Now Azure. Sweet Sweet Azure. The tragedy of Unckie Lion. Sincerely wanted to make the world a better place and was willing to sacrifice anything for it, just like LBD. I think about his scene with the Jade Emperor at least once a week. "How is it you come to stand before me today Azure, was there a point where you questioned it, or where you too oblivious in your own delusion to realize you were a mere piece in somebody else's game." Fucking insane. His abandonment issues are off the charts. He was gay for Wukong. He thought he could fix the world, and instead barely left it unbroken. He died with the power he couldn't use to change anything. He let himself become a pawn (continuing LMK's habit of manipulating royalty) thinking he could somehow avoid his fate. But the only way to win was to stop playing, and at every opportunity he had to stop he kept pushing. Moving forward. Just like LBD he was coping with the suffering of the world in his own way. It didn't work. Does it ever? Maybe MK will figure it out, maybe he'll leave the world better than he found it, but it's looking bleak. The 3 way foil between LBD, MK, and Azure haunts me.
And then maybe you realize every character in this show is just trying to cope with the world in their own way, and you stare at a wall for 3 hours about it.
Overall I think this image encapsulates it best:
#I am very much a tragedy enjoyer#I miss Azure SO MUCH and yet his arc was so good. There wasn't any other way it could end.#Me looking at LBD and Azure and MK parallels knowing MK is in some deep shit: *break dances*#And then Mei has had some negative character progression of her own over there#Do we think she's okay I'm half expecting a Mei breakdown next season. To pair nicely with MK's#Sandy has death vibes too ''you're too nice for your own good'' like there is not a single character I'm not worried about.#Everyone puts themselves on the line for each other but how many times can you do that without dying. You feel me.#Yes maybe I *am* expecting lmk s5 to be a tragedy! What of it!#My monkey lego tragedy fate vs freewill show#It's for me#Look I've loved tdp since I was like 15. Harrow is one of my favorite characters. There was no other way this was gonna go#I like themes and I like motifs and I like parallels and I like throwing all of those at my beloved characters#I can not help it it's the pattern recognition#Thinking about it 5 layers too deep#asks#lmk#lego monkie kid#monkie kid#lmk Mei#lmk LBD#lmk Lady Bone Demon#lmk Azure Lion#lmk analysis
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